Cooking consult!

[radiantfracture]

Say I want to veganize, or at least de-dairify, Hrishikesh Hirway's mom's mango pie recipe, but not end up with liquid pie, like Hrishi did (even though that cooking failure inspired a new flavour of ice cream).

Have you made such adaptations yourself, and refined them? What would you suggest? Any Very Clever Tricks?

I'd accept animal-based gelatin, but not cream or cream cheese.

Original family version

1 ½ cups boiling hot water
1 ½ packages unflavored gelatin
4 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. Cool Whip
16 oz. mango pulp (Alphonso if available)
½ cup sugar
2 graham cracker pie crusts


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Comments

[wendelah1]

You could sub Miyoko's Creamery Classic Plain Organic Cultured Vegan Cream Cheese for the dairy cream cheese. It's best in category, ymmv. Readily available at my local Target, Ralph's Market, etc. Also, I would switch out the most of the boiling water for ice cold water. (Like making quick set jello--hot water to get the gelatin to dissolve and then iced water to help it set quicker.)

If you want to ditch the Cool Whip as well, there are plenty of vegan mango pie recipes out there on the internet to use as a template. They all sound really good.

[radiantfracture]

Miyoko's Creamery Classic Plain Organic Cultured Vegan Cream Cheese

See, this is exactly the kind of insider knowledge I was looking for. Thank you so much!

Perversely, I want to make the specific Hirway pie recipe, even though I'm subbing in so many ingredients that we arguably have a pie of Theseus situation on our hands here.